United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 152United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1894 - Courts |
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... limits of the State , and the soil under such waters , belong in actual propriety to the public ; that the riparian owner , by the common law , has no peculiar rights in this public domain as incidents of his estate ; and that the ...
... limits of the State , and the soil under such waters , belong in actual propriety to the public ; that the riparian owner , by the common law , has no peculiar rights in this public domain as incidents of his estate ; and that the ...
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... limits , subject to the common law , to the same extent that Georgia possessed it before she ceded it to the United States . To maintain any other doctrine is to deny that Alabama has been admitted into the Union on an equal footing ...
... limits , subject to the common law , to the same extent that Georgia possessed it before she ceded it to the United States . To maintain any other doctrine is to deny that Alabama has been admitted into the Union on an equal footing ...
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... limits passed to the State , with the consequent right to dispose of the title to any part of said soils in such manner as she might deem proper , subject only to the para- mount right of navigation over the waters , so far as such ...
... limits passed to the State , with the consequent right to dispose of the title to any part of said soils in such manner as she might deem proper , subject only to the para- mount right of navigation over the waters , so far as such ...
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... limits , although a plan of improvement to be adopted might embrace or affect the course or the flow of rivers situated within the interior of the State . Could such an intention be ascribed to Congress , the right to enforce it may be ...
... limits , although a plan of improvement to be adopted might embrace or affect the course or the flow of rivers situated within the interior of the State . Could such an intention be ascribed to Congress , the right to enforce it may be ...
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... limit of the land was low water or the middle thread of the river ; and repeated the propositions established by the earlier decisions of this court , already referred to : " By the American Revolution , the people of each State , in ...
... limit of the land was low water or the middle thread of the river ; and repeated the propositions established by the earlier decisions of this court , already referred to : " By the American Revolution , the people of each State , in ...
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Page 26 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Page 343 - It is a finality as to the claim or demand in controversy, concluding parties and those in privity with them, not only as to every matter which was offered and received to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose...
Page 539 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose...
Page 216 - Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 217 - Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States...
Page 228 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Page 16 - For, when the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the General Government.
Page 472 - In equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of Interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Page 235 - When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission.
Page 286 - ... and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections: ProOpinion of the Court.